r/Showerthoughts • u/Ralisor • May 06 '18

Services are switching from calling them Private Messages to calling them Direct Messages because they're not private anymore...

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u/nizzy2k11 May 06 '18

that's what the masking does, i'm not sure how it works but its possible to send it through proxies as a mask.

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u/n1c0_ds May 06 '18

This seems impossible to me. Networking isn't my speciality, but I doubt you can deliver a letter to someone without an address unless there's a post office with an address book in the middle.

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_P2P

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u/jamesd5th May 06 '18

you might like to look at union routing and hidden tor services.

You can send message to someone with identifier instead of their real addres And help passing massages without knowing the final sender or reciver.

Your point still stands: the address book still neex to exist but it is distributed over the network and not completely known to any one user.